by Kaitlyn Spitzer | Nov 4, 2020
This poster was created as American propaganda during the first World War in 1918. In the early 20th-century traditional gender roles were still very prominent in America. It was the woman’s job to watch the children, take care of the house, and for men, it was their...
by Krystin Goodman | Nov 4, 2020
World War 1, also known as the Great War, was war fought between the Central Powers; the countries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, and the Allied Powers, the countries of Great Britain, Russia, Italy, France and the United States. Sparked by the...
by Victoria West | Nov 4, 2020
Rosie the Riveter is an iconic piece of art that started as World War II propaganda and is still to this day recognized as a feminist symbol for gender equality. World War II was a war of ideologies, with Fascism quickly emerging in Germany and Italy, other countries...
by Rebekah Santana | Nov 4, 2020
For every fighter a woman worker Y.W.C.A : Back our second line of defense –a poster created by Ernest Hamlin Baker in 1918; intending to showcase and encourage women workers, during World War I. In 1914 former president Woodrow Wilson was faced with a great...
by Christie Joshi | Nov 4, 2020
In the image, “Bonds -which?” from Cesare of the NY Evening Post (1917), the propaganda poster depicts an image of Uncle Sam holding chains in one hand and a liberty bond in the other hand with a train moving in a desolate background. In 1917 when this image was first...